Fatal Attractions (comics)

"Fatal Attractions"
Cover of X-Men vol. 2, 25 (Oct, 1993), art by Andy Kubert
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Publication date	July – November 1993
Genre	Superhero Crossover
Title(s) Excalibur vol. 1, #71 The Uncanny X-Men #304 Wolverine vol. 2, #75 X-Factor vol. 1, #92 X-Force vol. 1, #25 X-Men vol. 2, #25
Main character(s)	John Romita, Jr.

"Fatal Attractions" is a major

• This story leads directly into the
  Bloodties
  ".
• In
  Onslaught Saga
  of 1996.
• The
  mind-wiped
  Magneto did not return until 1997 in Uncanny X-Men #350.
• Wolverine lost his adamantium skeleton (and subsequently left the X-Men). He did not get it back until 1999, when
  Apocalypse rebonded it to his skeleton, shown through flashback sequences during Wolverine (vol. 2) #145. Genesis
  had attempted the same earlier, but did not succeed (during Wolverine (vol. 2) #99-#100).
• With the team in shambles, the three remaining members of Excalibur (Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Phoenix) decide to remain on Muir Island, abandoning their operations in Britain.
• After the destruction of Avalon, Colossus would later join Excalibur as part of his rehabilitation.
• According to Peter David, the idea of Magneto pulling out Wolverine's adamantium came from the plotting of the X-Cutioner's Song crossover. He had sarcastically suggested the removal when they were considering bringing Magneto back, and supposedly it was never meant to be taken seriously.^{[citation needed]}
• Nicieza returned to this story in honor of the X-Men's 50th anniversary in the special anthology comic X-Men: Gold #1 (2013). In this short story, we see that while he was erasing Magneto's mind, Xavier gave him a final vision of a utopia that could have come to pass if the two of them had worked together.

Tie-in issues

1. X-Factor #92
2. X-Force #25
3. Uncanny X-Men #304
4. X-Men (vol. 2) #25
5. Wolverine (vol. 2) #75
6. Excalibur #71

Reception

Initial installments of "Fatal Attractions" sold higher than the issues of the participating series which preceded them, but noticeably less than previous

• Several elements of the Fatal Attractions storyline were influenced in the
  Asteroid M
  , a human-free orbiting space station, though it was only Cortez who desired to use its weaponry to attack humans.
• Fatal Attractions was loosely adapted into a video game entitled
  Juggernaut
  joins forces with Magneto as he promises a mutant run planet.
• In the 2003 video game X2: Wolverine's Revenge (whose storyline has more connections to the Marvel Universe than to X2), the events of Fatal Attractions are briefly mentioned during the confrontation between Magneto and Wolverine, with Wolverine reminding the former he didn't forget when Magneto ripped the adamantium out of Wolverine's body.
• The fourth part of Fatal Attractions, X-Men (Vol. 2) #25, was loosely adapted into X-Men '97 episode, "Tolerance is Extinction – Part 2". After Wolverine, stabbed Magneto, he used his powers to violently rip out all the adamantium from Wolverine's body.